Bok review: Heady stuff

Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa

Film review: A planet of hope

Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi

Cocooned in secrecy

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Another leak

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Just transition: Digital literacy can help youth dependant on coal sector move into other fields, finds IIT study

Digital media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube can also be used to educate the youth on just transition

What is Mastodon and why it won’t be a new Twitter

A social media expert explains how the ‘federated’ network works and its drawbacks

Pictures on social media can help in conservation of ecology

Hundreds of geotagged photos are being analysed to find out how people use different natural spaces

Section 377 verdict: Social media erupts with anger but misses HIV link

Section 377 makes gay community vulnerable to HIV/AIDS by making it difficult for institutions to make information and services available to …

Book review: Seeds of Contention

The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …

Different colours of green

How media has shaped people's understanding of environment

News Snippets

Controversial claims

Rooftop revolution

More and more people in food-deficit Kerala are taking up terrace farming to grow organic vegetables and fruits

Poison present

Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, …

Colouring plants

Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

When 'calamity' strikes

Water harvesting is the new catchword for the government struggling against drought. And the media is going out of its way to spread the word. In …

Simply Put: COVID-19 and Indian media

Celebrities liable for commercials

Consumer protection council sets up committee to regulate contents of advertisements

Community radio creates new waves in Uttarakhand

Rattled by the flood disaster last year, popular community radio voices have resolved to take up issues to safeguard their surroundings from …

Conflicts are bad for the environment, says UNEP report

At a time when the threat of war looms large over Iraq, here's more ammunition for peaceniks to confront warmongers with. The United Nations …

Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?

A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …

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Promises and lies

Supreme Court stays government's sham deal of promising land to tribals